Installation Procedures Welcome to SoftQuad HoTMetaL, an editor especially for HTML files. This distribution is for Microsoft Windows 3.1; it will not run without Microsoft Windows. You will need about 8 Megabytes of free disk space on your hard drive, and about 6 Megabytes of available RAM. If you have less memory than this, you maybe able to create a Windows swap file and continue, but your system will run much faster if you have more memory. See the file README.WRI for more information on memory problems. The software has been stored in a compressed format to make it easier to distribute. To extract the files you will run an installation script. To do this, follow these steps: * Start up Microsoft Windows. * Using the Windows File Manager, move to the directory where you saved the files that you ftp'd. You should see two files: INSTALL.TXT (the file you're now reading), and HOTM1NEW.EXE. * It is a good idea to move HOTM1NEW.EXE into a newly created directory (any directory with no other files present) to make the removal of the installer files easy to do when you are finished installing the software. * Double-click on the file HOTM1NEW.EXE. This unpacks fourteen files in the directory. * Double-click on the file HMINST.EXE to begin the installation. The first dialog box that appears is the Welcome Message. Click on the "Continue" button to continue. Another dialog box appears, letting you choose where to install the software. The default location is the directory C:\SQHM. * If you want install in an alternate location, type it in the text box labeled "Copy to". Include the drive name, as well as the full path name. If you have a previous version of HoTMetaL, you must NOT install the new version in the same location. * Now click on the "Ok" button to proceed with the installation. If, for some reason, you wish to cancel the installation, click on the "Exit" button. The installation script will check that you have enough disk space. If there is not enough, it will return you to the dialog box where you may choose an alternate location for the software, or else cancel the installation and free up some disk space. As the installation progresses, a horizontal bar on the screen will gradually increase in length to indicate the proportion of files that have been extracted. Another vertical bar on the left of the screen will indicate the proportion of the current file that has been extracted. If you want to cancel the installation during the extraction procedure, you may click on the F3 key. If you attempt to do this, a dialog box will appear, asking whether you still wish to cancel. The installation will take approximately 5 minutes to complete. * Once the files have been extracted, a dialog box will appear asking you for the name of the Windows program group that will be created. By default, the installation program will create a program group called SoftQuad HoTMetaL 1.0+. If you wish to create a different group, enter the name in the text box provided. If a program group of that name already exists, it will be overwritten. You can run HoTMetaL by clicking on an icon in this program group. * Once installation is complete, you can remove the files extracted from hotmetal.exe which were used by the installer. They are found in the same directory as hotmetal.exe Printing the manual The manual is supplied in two formats: PostScript and unformatted text. * The PostScript version is the file DOC\HOTMETAL.PS and you can send it to any PostScript printer that supports the Palatino font (all except very old models do). To do this, go to the DOS prompt, change directory to the location of the file, and type: PRINT HOTMETAL.PS The manual is about 100 pages long. The unformatted text version is the file DOC/HOTMETAL.TXT.